Gates foundation offers 33 million dollars to subsidize China to prevent and cure tuberculosis

Gates foundation offers 33 million dollars to subsidize China to prevent and cure tuberculosis
Beijing, April 1 of China News Service (reporter Zeng LiMing) Minister of Chinese Ministry of Public Health Chen Zhu and American Bill and Mei Linda and Gates foundation joint President Bill and Gates announce today, both sides will establish the partnership rich in the innovative meaning, Gates foundation offers the subsidy amounting to 33 million dollars for China in the following five years, start tuberculosis, prevent and cure project, help China introduce innovative measure, with prevent from, able to bear the intersection of nature and public health that tuberculosis initiates, threaten to spread.
Whom both sides hold during this period able to bear many medicine, able to bear the intersection of medicine and high to bear at the national ministerial meeting confirming tuberculosis extensively: In finishing the first stage cooperation, Chinese Government will be proved the effective innovative method of the pilot project to popularize in 20 cities progressively, it is estimated that will make 50,000 tuberculosis patients benefited every year.
China Mainland nearly sends the tuberculosis case 1,500,000 newly every year; The collaborative project will adopt and prevent and cure technology and offer for it diagnosing and treat newly, in the hope of the service level of making a diagnosis of tuberculosis of improvement notably.
Zhu Chen say tuberculosis it prevents and cures projects to be another important cooperation after both sides are in the successful cooperation of domain of AIDS preventing and controlling, it will explore new tool and new method that tuberculosis will be diagnosed, will set up effective prevention and cure mode. This not only helps China even global tuberculosis to prevent and cure also offered the good mode for cooperating with non-governmental organization in the government.
Gates emphasize, have, diagnose and treat discrepancy, aggravate the intersection of tuberculosis and threat to human health, " the cooperation with China will be strengthened basically controlling to tuberculosis, will prevent tuberculosis from being able to bear the formulation of nature from source " .
It is reported, this collaborative project is prepared since 2007, discuss through expert many wheels of both sides of China and the United States, sanctioned by Gates foundation at the beginning of March this year. The project content includes employing the new tool to strengthen tuberculosis diagnosis and patient's management, set up section hospital and disease and accuse of the cooperative treatment of system, patient and manage new mode and supervision Line two and resist the tuberculosis medicines quality system.
Able to bear many the intersection of medicine and tuberculosis, mean to use for, treat at least two kinds of most effective medicines store in and able to bear nature in the a gleam of medicine of tuberculosis at present, and treat difficulty and a kind of all very high tuberculosis of cost. World Health Organization claims, China is one of the countries able to bear tuberculosis of many medicines with heavier epidemic situation in the world now. (End)
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